Stop quoting Steve Ballmer

Not "Developers Developers Developers", that one is great. The cancer one.

Don't ask Microsoft to do it all

A five-million-line enterprise app asked Microsoft for a longer .NET support window. The Java world answered that question a decade ago.

Build a Custom WSL 2 Kernel in 2026

Building a custom WSL 2 kernel in 2026 with the WSL system distro (Azure Linux) as a clean, root, throwaway build environment. KVM now ships enabled, so this covers the reasons that still matter, plus the new modules VHDX deployment step.

I'm running for the .NET Foundation Board

I am on the ballot for the 2026 .NET Foundation Board election. Why I am running, what the Foundation is recruiting for this cycle, and what I would bring: partnerships across the Microsoft and open source line, nonprofit governance, and a long record in the .NET and WSL communities.

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft’s first general-purpose Linux

Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM and coming soon to WSL.

wslc: A native Linux container runtime for Windows

wslc brings native OCI-compatible Linux containers to WSL: a Docker-compatible CLI, GPU passthrough via CDI, a full C/WinRT/C# SDK, and a plugin API that lets Windows applications mount folders, spawn processes, and react to container lifecycle events as native Windows handles.

WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

From DrvFs in WSL 1 to Plan 9 to virtiofs, cross-OS file access in WSL 2 has improved with each generation. A new change gives each virtio device its own dedicated DMA pool, removing the last major contention point on the virtiofs path.

Getting Started Creating a Linux Desktop App in Visual Studio using Avalonia and WSL

Build cross-platform GUI apps for WIndows and Linux using C# and .NET using Avalonia in Visual Studio.

Windows Dev Drive Benchmarks

Putting Windows Dev Drive through it's paces on the Windows Dev Kit 2023.

The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress

The vague complaints of the Copilot plaintiffs are nothing compared to the damage to free software and human progress if they won.

Microsoft's CBL-Delridge is 404, long live CBL-Mariner

Microsoft is increasingly standardizing on its in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution. Is this Microsoft Linux?

February 1 Live Stream: Trying (and failing) to install openSUSE and SmartOS on Vultr

Installing RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi 400

Let's learn about the origins of ARM and RISC OS at Acorn, download and flash a RISC OS image for the Pi 400 using another ARM device ironically, tangent into BeOS and Haiku, and then explore the unique UI of RISC OS.